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Here are three paintings I managed to squeeze into a family holiday in Glenorchy in the past few weeks. All painted in the great outdoors battling time, weather and insects. Enjoy.

Evening Dusts

Oil on Canvas

Towards Earnslaw

Oil on Canvas

Towards the Rees

Oil on Canvas

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so I…

Enjoy this free chapter from the Mastering Sunsets Course.

Everyone loves sunsets

...but for painters like us they're particularly beautiful because they inspire us to paint them, so we're lucky in that…

Enjoy this free chapter from the Mastering Sunsets Course.

Everyone loves sunsets

...but for painters like us they're particularly beautiful because they inspire us to paint them, so we're lucky in that…

A lo fi animation with big intent . My own and my machine's technical limitations make it a true learning experience for me . If there are any other lo-fi amateur movie makers in this site I would be interested in your work .

Fun for some !!!! Soundtrack by Raymond Scott

An attempt to simulate a Stan Brakhage film using blown up details of my paintings .

This is about as hi tech as I get . This is mainly a goof I do for fun and hopefully I'll eventually learn something .

“Red Crested Cardinal” 12×12″ Acrylic on Canvas by Richard Robinson

The idea of painting on a ‘toned’ (coloured) canvas is not a new one. In fact it’s been used for centuries to banish the tyranny of the white canvas and to help thread colour through a painting. It’s tried and tested.

However, not many people paint on vibrant coloured canvas.…

When drawing from life or from a photo there are 2 simple tips to make it easier for you to get it right consistently.

They're both angle transfer methods.

Use your brush or pencil to measure the angle you're wanting to draw, then rotate your body without changing the angle…

I read your article on glazing.  I am very excited.  I just painted my beautiful grand daughter on a setting sun beach with a surf board.  I find the sunset could be improved and the surf board overpowers the picture instead of the subject.  I think glazing will work well on that painting and I am going to try it.  Hopefully, this sill be a successful attempt at improving my work.

Arlette

Looking for someone to share a room for this workshop. 

Learn about how to use glazing to improve your oil paintings in this video.

The same applies for acrylic painting, though you would use gloss medium varnish or some other clear fast drying medium to mix your glazes with.

With oils I currently either use walnut oil or alkyd walnut oil medium as a…

Learn about how to use glazing to improve your oil painting. The same applies for acrylic painting, though you would use gloss medium varnish or some other clear fast drying medium to mix your glazes with.

With oils I currently either use walnut oil or alkyd walnut oil medium as a glazing medium.

Learn more about…

Here's how I look at the world as a painter...

This video is about Seeing the world like a Painter. Learn more about painting at http://www.livepaintinglessons.com

Here's a brief clip from the First Snow painting lesson at: http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/shop/first-snow

Beginners paintings are often distinguished by a lack of variety. They often display large areas of flat colour,…

Here's a brief clip from the Sunset Dunes painting lesson at: http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/shop/sunset-dunes/

When painting grasses or trees, or anything that we know is full of complex detail, it's all too easy to get carried…

I wanted to explore more interesting colors for when we use a "gray" in our paintings. I used three different mixes in these three paintings. These acrylic paintings were done using a common theme of red on a dark background.

Here's a brief clip from the Chinaman's Bluff painting lesson at: http://www.livepaintinglessons.com/workshop2x.php

Many beginner painters see water and assume it's all blue, or all green, without looking to see what's really going…